This post introduces a new tutorial on docs.microsoft.com that shows you how to use Azure Functions to build a REST API, enable AAD authentication, and then make it available to Power Apps as a Custom Connector.

In this blog post, we will see how one can use various out-of-box Power Platform capabilities to build a flexible control to render a business process flow within a Canvas app. We’ve also included a pre-built solution as a sample implementation. The solution leverages Canvas Components, Common Data Service APIs via a custom connector and flows to build a re-usable component that can be used with any business process flow.

In this example, we show how to leverage Azure Services, in this specific case Azure SignalR to enable real-time communication between PowerApps and Microsoft Dynamics 365 or any other system onPrem or Cloud based.